[PATCH urgent] ARM: fix the memset fix

Sascha Hauer s.hauer at pengutronix.de
Thu May 23 02:32:39 EDT 2013


Hi Nico,

ignore this one, you were not meant to be on Cc.

Sascha

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 08:31:15AM +0200, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> From: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre at linaro.org>
> 
> From Kernel commit 418df63a ARM: 7670/1: fix the memset fix
> 
> | Commit 455bd4c430b0 ("ARM: 7668/1: fix memset-related crashes caused by
> | recent GCC (4.7.2) optimizations") attempted to fix a compliance issue
> | with the memset return value.  However the memset itself became broken
> | by that patch for misaligned pointers.
> |
> | This fixes the above by branching over the entry code from the
> | misaligned fixup code to avoid reloading the original pointer.
> |
> | Also, because the function entry alignment is wrong in the Thumb mode
> | compilation, that fixup code is moved to the end.
> |
> | While at it, the entry instructions are slightly reworked to help dual
> | issue pipelines.
> |
> | Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico at linaro.org>
> | Tested-by: Alexander Holler <holler at ahsoftware.de>
> | Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel at arm.linux.org.uk>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>
> ---
> 
> This was reported one of our customers. One effect was that the
> md5sum implementation produced wrong results.
> 
>  arch/arm/lib/memset.S | 33 +++++++++++++--------------------
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/lib/memset.S b/arch/arm/lib/memset.S
> index 5e35d7f..c4d2672 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/lib/memset.S
> +++ b/arch/arm/lib/memset.S
> @@ -14,31 +14,15 @@
>  
>  	.text
>  	.align	5
> -	.word	0
> -
> -1:	subs	r2, r2, #4		@ 1 do we have enough
> -	blt	5f			@ 1 bytes to align with?
> -	cmp	r3, #2			@ 1
> -	strltb	r1, [ip], #1		@ 1
> -	strleb	r1, [ip], #1		@ 1
> -	strb	r1, [ip], #1		@ 1
> -	add	r2, r2, r3		@ 1 (r2 = r2 - (4 - r3))
> -/*
> - * The pointer is now aligned and the length is adjusted.  Try doing the
> - * memset again.
> - */
>  
>  ENTRY(memset)
> -/*
> - * Preserve the contents of r0 for the return value.
> - */
> -	mov	ip, r0
> -	ands	r3, ip, #3		@ 1 unaligned?
> -	bne	1b			@ 1
> +	ands	r3, r0, #3		@ 1 unaligned?
> +	mov	ip, r0			@ preserve r0 as return value
> +	bne	6f			@ 1
>  /*
>   * we know that the pointer in ip is aligned to a word boundary.
>   */
> -	orr	r1, r1, r1, lsl #8
> +1:	orr	r1, r1, r1, lsl #8
>  	orr	r1, r1, r1, lsl #16
>  	mov	r3, r1
>  	cmp	r2, #16
> @@ -127,5 +111,14 @@ ENTRY(memset)
>  	tst	r2, #1
>  	strneb	r1, [ip], #1
>  	mov	pc, lr
> +
> +6:	subs	r2, r2, #4		@ 1 do we have enough
> +	blt	5b			@ 1 bytes to align with?
> +	cmp	r3, #2			@ 1
> +	strltb	r1, [ip], #1		@ 1
> +	strleb	r1, [ip], #1		@ 1
> +	strb	r1, [ip], #1		@ 1
> +	add	r2, r2, r3		@ 1 (r2 = r2 - (4 - r3))
> +	b	1b
>  ENDPROC(memset)
>  
> -- 
> 1.8.2.rc2
> 
> 

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